Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / / Brian Black
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| Autore: |
Black Brian <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / / Brian Black
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/76223382/0974897 |
| Soggetto topico: | Petroleum - Pennsylvania - Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County) - History |
| Petroleum industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County) - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.) Environmental conditions History |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-225) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Persistence of Oil on the Brain -- Chapter One "A Good Time Coming for Whales" -- Chapter Two "A Triumph of Individualism" -- Chapter Three The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia -- Chapter Four Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus -- Chapter Five What Nature Intended This Place Should Be" -- Chapter Six Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City" -- Chapter Seven Delusions of Permanence -- Epilogue The Legacy of Petrolia -- Appendix Oil Boom Towns with Post Offices of Petrolia, Listing Years of Operation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Petrolia |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7465-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828609803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Creating the North American landscape.